St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-21

have been sunk at once if strncS by one of
them. A driving snow blinded all who
raced IL, and bOatmen guided their return
by wind and current for the nearest land,
about two miles southeast of the city.
which they finally reached after many mar
row escapes. Damages about Bismarck
except as noted yesterday. are limited to the
destruction of Hollands slaughter house and
four or five buildings on the bottom lands
1t looks as though Mandan's overflow was
from back water, without much current and
with little ice, so there will not be much
damage except from water and its deposits
of sand and mud. Old settlers say this de-
post on bottom lands will be enough to stop
the growth of the grass for two years, and
that it will be the third year before Bis
marck meadows will again yield large crops
of hay.
NEWS FROM MANDAN.
r. M. Tuttle, editor of the Mandan Pho
neer, who was caught on this side of the
river by the flood of Friday, received a
telegram this morning from his wife in
Mandan, sent by way of Cheyenne and
Ogden. She says she is comfortable in the
business block where his paper was printed,
having left their house when the cellar was
Hooded Parties from here who went up
the river three miles to get better view of
Mandan than can be had from the vicinity
of the bridge. are of the opin-
ion that the Heart river is
gorged some distance above its mouth,
and its overflow is running through Mandan
and finding an outlet to the Missouri river
through a rayine which emptieS half mile
above the railroad bridge. This cuts off
communication with Rock Haven and ac-
counts for no attempt having been made to
search this side by boats from Rock Haven,
where the channel to Bismarck has been
open except when the ice was running.
Mandan is also cut off by flood and ice from
communication with Fort Lincoln. Engines
were seen running in the railroad yards in
Mandan to-day, indicating that no palt of
the yard is
DEEPLY FLOODED.
The report that an engine and loaded
cars had crossed the trestle work west of
the bridge to-day was erroneous. An engine
and cars did cross the bridge, carrying men
TO work Oh the dyke, and the men walked
on the trestle to the embankment at the
west end. The dyke has been greatly
strengthened with sandbags, and holes filled
where breaks We're made by the ice Friday.
Telegrams received to-day from Supt. Gra-
ham, in Mandan, announce his personal
safety and state that railroad property there
is well protected. but gives no indication of
the condition Of the town. Assistant Gen
eral Manager Odell returned from
the East to-day. and by his
advice railroad officers at st. Paul
Will disSuade.mmigrants and travellers from
starting for west of the Missouri river until
communication is restored. Mails for
points west of Montana were returned to
st. Paul to-day and Montana mails will
probably be sent back tomorrow to be for
warded via the Central Pacific road. The
railroad shops at Mandan were built since
the flood of 1881, and officials appear to
have had little idea that another flood
might occur. AproproS railroad men think
they can call on Supt. Green for cigars. 1t
is said he reported at headquarters that he
had
DITCHES DUG
to protect the shops from overflow, and he
thought they would carry Off all the water
that came down Heart river, and his
bitches are now only holes in the bottom of
the river. The great gorge at Sibley island
and above. viewed through spy-glass,
shows vast field of ice piled on edge to
the height of ten to twenty feet above the
water level. In some places great masses
OF ice have been forced up until their tops
are i'll the branches Of overhanging forest
trees. The general appearance indicates
that in coming down in large firm cakes
they turned upon edge, one piece against
another, forming a compact mass for miles
in length and from bank to bank.
The main channel appears completely
closed, and all the water is forced eastward
to find its way into the channel over and
through the smaller ice gorged on the east
of iclo
are already on hand, and the MaEdan
treStle
WILL BE QUICKLY RESTORED,
when the men can get at the span near the
ground where the timbers have been broken
and crushed by the ice. Above this place
the track is considerably depressed and the
officials would not allow hand car to
cross. The river has continued to rise
since 5 o'clock this morning, and it is
thought the Yellowstone flood has reached
us and that rise of perhaps six inches
more will occur during the night. At this
hour the gauge at the foot of Third street
shows the ficod at level with the high
water mark OF 1881, and it is rising at a
rate OF one inch per hour. Curiously
enough, however, the gauge at the bridge
shows one inch less water than at Third
street. The difference is attributed to the
stronger current at the bridge Communl-
cation with Mandan is absolutely impos-
sible. When the food goes down the worst
job the railroad will have will be the re-
moval of the ice from the tracks between
the bridge and Mandan. for which dyna-
mite will be required. The night is still
and clear, twenty degrees above
FROM MANDAN.
Our regular Mandan correspondent tee-
graphs: ''The report concerning the inun-
daton of Mandan is utterly false. No
water has entered the streets from the Mis-
souri, or Heart rivers, but anxiety prevails
among Mandan inhabitants for fear the
poor people living on the lowlands are in
danger. Business is going on as usual.
The only damage done has been to the
trestlework of the bridge and to the track
two miles east of Mandan. A party will
cross the submerged lowlands OH the ice to-
morrow"
Sons of Veterans Lodge.
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